The second problem is that the Fusion process requires extremely high precision in details.
When to incorporate each Spirit Medicine essence, for how long, and to what extent the reaction should proceed before adding other Medicinal Materials essences—all these details have extremely high requirements.
This is a very complex process; even a slight mistake can lead to the failure of the entire Alchemy!
These two major difficulties have blocked countless Cultivators; without outstanding Talent and extensive practice, it is simply impossible to succeed in Alchemy.
Even if this is a relatively simple Potion refinement.
From the difficulty of Potion refinement, one can infer the difficulty of Alchemy.
Under normal circumstances, the difficulty of refining Medicinal Pills is at least ten times that of refining Potions, the process is more cumbersome, and it also requires a more precious Pill Furnace and Spiritual Fire to assist in Alchemy.
As for such precious high-grade Spirit Medicine like hundred-year blood ginseng and fifty-year flowing light grass, for ordinary Cultivators, due to their extreme value, failing once might mean years to earn back the cost.
However, despite the high difficulty of this Alchemy attempt, Qi Ping felt a little apprehensive but not overly worried.
Because during his free time cultivating Spirit Medicine, Qi Ping had already practiced and rehearsed multiple times!
In fact, Qi Ping had successfully refined the reduced version of the bloodline mutation potion, which did not meet the age requirements, multiple times!
That's why Qi Ping had the courage to directly start refining the bloodline mutation potion once the flowing light grass and blood ginseng reached their required age.
In fact, after Qi Ping returned from Qing Shi Market, he began practicing Spirit Medicine extraction techniques in the forest.
This Spirit Medicine extraction technique is less of a Spell and more of a skill; any Qi Refining Cultivator can practice it, but the degree of mastery varies from person to person.
The reason he chose to be in the forest is that a Jungle Druid can gain various attribute enhancements in the forest, such as perception enhancement, spiritual power enhancement, and mental enhancement, which gives Qi Ping a unique advantage when extracting and fusing Spirit Medicine essences in the forest.
Coupled with Qi Ping's Wood Spiritual Root, the Jungle Druid's inherent affinity for Spirit Plants, and the Brewing Artisan Talent, Qi Ping possesses a keen Talent for Spirit Medicine.
Under so many favorable conditions, Qi Ping began practicing herbal essence extraction with ordinary herbs in addition to cultivating Spirit Medicine.
The difficulty of extracting ordinary herbal essence was not high, and Qi Ping quickly became proficient.
However, when he tried to extract the medicinal essence of blood ginseng, even with all his unique advantages, the Early Stage was spent in failed extractions.
The difficulty of extracting Spirit Medicine is far greater than that of ordinary herbs, completely on a different level!
Qi Ping also finally understood why Alchemists are one of the most expensive professions.
Even with so many advantages, he failed many times before gradually becoming proficient in the Spirit Medicine essence extraction technique, and this was only the most basic extraction technique.
By the time Qi Ping had thoroughly mastered the Spirit Medicine extraction technique, most of the dozen or so blood ginseng plants had been extensively harvested by him, a result of his hundreds and thousands of practice attempts.
Each time, he would take a small portion without harming the blood ginseng's vitality, then use Plant Growth to restore the blood ginseng's condition, and then practice the Spirit Medicine extraction technique multiple times with very small amounts.
After hundreds of practice attempts, Qi Ping gradually mastered the blood ginseng extraction technique.
Fortunately, this Spirit Medicine extraction process generally does not cause the blood ginseng to lose its effectiveness; whether successful or failed, most of it can be used by the Gold Marrow Bees to brew honey, with only a small portion being lost.
But even that small portion still made Qi Ping's heart ache.
Over the past nearly half a month, the Gold Marrow Bees almost exclusively used Spirit Medicine essences that Qi Ping had either failed to extract or successfully extracted to brew honey.
Finally, after many practices, Qi Ping not only became proficient in this Spirit Medicine essence extraction technique but also familiarized himself with the Medicinal Materials required for the bloodline mutation potion hundreds of times.
Because hundred-year blood ginseng and flowing light grass, even with Qi Ping's Plant Growth skill, would take almost a month to Cultivate.
Therefore, Qi Ping absolutely had to reduce the possibility of refining failure through various methods.
Deep in the dense forest, beneath the ancient fir tree where Qi Ping usually Cultivated.
This place was where the power of plants and trees was most concentrated nearby, allowing Qi Ping to gain the maximum enhancement.
At this moment, he sat cross-legged on the ground, with a wooden table in front of him, on which were all the herbs Qi Ping had prepared and several jade bottles.
"Let's begin!"
With everything ready, Qi Ping took a deep breath to adjust his state, then began the Alchemy work.
First, Qi Ping began to divide the Spirit Medicine on the table according to the proportions of the bloodline mutation potion formula.
After some effort, Qi Ping ultimately divided out ten portions of the formula's Medicinal Materials; there was slightly more than ten portions of blood ginseng, and two tenths more of flowing light grass.
Mainly, the hundred-year blood ginseng was limited; otherwise, he could have prepared a few more portions.
There were two reasons for not extracting everything at once: one was that Qi Ping's spiritual power could not support extracting a complete blood ginseng at once, and extracting small portions would result in a higher success rate.
The other reason was that Qi Ping estimated his success rate for extracting hundred-year blood ginseng might be around 70%; if divided into ten portions, as long as his luck wasn't too bad, he would certainly succeed with five portions or more.
If he succeeded in extracting everything at once, that would be great, but if he failed, wouldn't it be a complete disaster? The same logic applied when fusing Spirit Medicine.
Anyway, when preparing the bloodline mutation potion, as long as the proportions were correct, it was fine; there was no requirement for the quantity.
After the Medicinal Materials were divided, Qi Ping began the Spirit Medicine extraction work.
The ten portions of ordinary Medicinal Materials were quickly and effortlessly extracted successfully by Qi Ping!
"Ordinary Medicinal Materials are not difficult; there's almost no possibility of extraction failure."
"Next up is the flowing light grass."
There were more portions of flowing light grass, so starting with it to get a feel for the process was more suitable.
So, Qi Ping picked up a portion of flowing light grass and, with practiced ease, enveloped it with spiritual power to refine it.
Following a fluid operation, it unexpectedly failed to extract!
However, Qi Ping didn't feel much remorse; instead, he felt even more confident.
"The medicinal properties of fifty-year flowing light grass are much stronger; the extraction steps and method need to be slightly altered."
Second extraction. Still failed!
"Failed again? But I know what the problem is!"
A confident smile appeared on Qi Ping's face; the next time should be fine. This confidence came from hundreds and thousands of practice attempts.
Third extraction. Success!
Fourth time. Success!
Ninth time. Failure!
Twelfth time, success!
In the end, Qi Ping failed three times and succeeded nine times!
"Not bad!"
Qi Ping was quite satisfied with this result; the success rate was slightly higher than he had anticipated.
More importantly, with the experience of extracting fifty-year flowing light grass, Qi Ping felt even more confident about extracting blood ginseng next.
After circulating the Wood Shield Skill to recover some spiritual power, Qi Ping once again concentrated on refining the blood ginseng.
First extraction. Failure!
"As expected."
Qi Ping wasn't overly worried internally; he estimated that the next attempt had a high probability of success.
Second time. Success!
Third time. Failure!
Fourth time. Success!
Tenth time. Success!
Ultimately, eight out of ten portions of hundred-year blood ginseng were successfully extracted.
"Very good! The success rate reached 80%, which is higher than my estimated 70%!"
This was a good start for Qi Ping.
Now Qi Ping had a total of eight portions of Materials, and how many would ultimately be successfully fused depended on the success rate of fusing them into the bloodline mutation potion.
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